United Water spokesman Rich Henning says the man "broke over a fence with barbed wire on top" to enter the property overnight. Workers heard cries for help as they arrived for work around 7 a.m. He says their first priority was to free the man,who was wearing only a jacket and shortsaccording to NBC 4 New York. He left his home around 2:30 a.m.

Henning says “It is a facility that pumps water, pumps it out of the ground. This is certainly the first time we have ever seen anything like this.” He says it treats and pumps water for the township of Manalapan. Henning says the outflow pipe is used for cleaning a storage facility and is no more than 24 inches wide.